Shalesh kumar advised the members to submit their half-yearly progress reports to the secretary only in the prescribed format
The meeting of Town Official language Implementation Committee (TOlIC), Panipat, was held under the chairmanship of TK Basak, ED (I/c), Panipat Refinery & Petrochemical Complex on December 16 at the auditorium of the community centre of Panipat Refinery Township. The meeting was attended by nearly 50 officials from various offices like Indian Oil’s pipeline-NRPl and marketing division, SBI, CISF, income tax office, Kendriya Vidyalayas, nationalised banks, insurance companies and other central government offices located in and around Panipat town.
At the outset B Arun Kumar, GM (HR), accorded a warm welcome to all the members and shared the activities carried out by TOlIC, Panipat, in the past. Sudhir Kumar, senior manager (Hindi), presented the consolidated TOlIC report and explained the progress on pertinent points. He briefed about various recommendations given by various members during interactions with the proposed parliamentary Hindi inspection.
Shalesh Kumar Singh, deputy director (implementation), North region, Department of Official language, MoHA, and chief guest on the occasion, reviewed the half yearly progress presented by the members of various offices, undertakings and emphasised the need for an effective propagation and use of Hindi in the offices. He explained the goals fixed for the year 2013-14 in different areas of Hindi implementation and appealed to the representatives of member organisations to make sincere efforts for achieving the targets. The procedure for installation of unicode font and creation of user ID in Management Information System developed under Ol site of Government of India was also explained. The member offices created user ID for their offices and understood the procedure for sending online reports to various statutory bodies. Various queries related to online reporting were replied by him during the meeting. He also advised the members to send their half yearly progress reports to member secretary in the prescribed format quite in advance so as to enable him to present the same in TOlIC meeting in an amalgamated method.
In the concluding address to the members present, Basak, stressed the need for an effective implementation of Hindi in day-to-day official jobs and requested all the members to install unicode fonts in remaining computers for increasing correspondence in Hindi and sending e-mails on a regular basis. He also gave various suggestions related to organising Hindi meetings, Kavi Sammelan, publication of TOlIC magazine, workshops, conferences and competitions round the year to keep the employees engaged. On this occasion BD Yadav, ED (NRPl) B Arun Kumar GM (HR) Panipat Refinery, RK Samtani, GM (RPl) and SK Sharma, DGM (RC), Panipat Marketing Complex were also present to encourage the participants. Finally in the award ceremony in the category of big member offices Panipat Marketing Complex bagged the first prize; CISF unit of Indian Oil got the second prize and KVS, NFl received the third prize for Refinery Rajbhasha Shield. In the category of small member offices first prize was given to Allahabad Bank, Panipat, second prize was given to Punjab & Sindh Bank, Panipat and third prize was given to Vijaya Bank of Panipat.